8 inches:Um, I thought Palestinians were already considered zoo animals.

They are. As evidenced by them using their kids as human shields. If their kid dies, how adorable! A lifetime of victimhood and hate and admiring a photo of the martyr instead of having to feed the kid.

I also heard that this was a problem in Russia. Animals can be pretty sensitive to a diet change, and when you used to feed them on fish imported from the EU, you may have a problem when you can't get it anymore.

They are. As evidenced by them using their kids as human shields. If their kid dies, how adorable! A lifetime of victimhood and hate and admiring a photo of the martyr instead of having to feed the kid.

"a lifetime of victimhood"? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH! ok, THAT was farking funny.

fusillade762:killed more than 1,960 Palestinians and 67 people on the Israeli side

Admittedly I haven't been paying the closest attention to this shiatstorm, but when did the Israeli death toll get that high? Last I heard their losses were still in the single digits.

Yeah, that's a bit of obfuscation to mix civilians and military together. The death toll is correct.It's 63 IDF and something like ~200 Hamas. Which makes you think Hamas are the sane ones, until you realize it's just because Iron Dome's limiting their aggression on the civilian populace of Israel; there are no sane ones in this fight.

This makes me very very sad. This whole conflict is sad and ridiculous, but the poor animals are caught in the cross fire and it's not like they can run to a bunker and hide. The ones killed outright by bombs are the lucky ones, the animals left behind in shock and to die of hunger and thirst. smdh

They are. As evidenced by them using their kids as human shields. If their kid dies, how adorable! A lifetime of victimhood and hate and admiring a photo of the martyr instead of having to feed the kid.

Yeah, let's conflate two issues - that'll sure make everything more transparent. And while we're at it, do it using a 'look-over-there' argument!

Coming on a Bicycle:Kevin72: 8 inches: Um, I thought Palestinians were already considered zoo animals.

They are. As evidenced by them using their kids as human shields. If their kid dies, how adorable! A lifetime of victimhood and hate and admiring a photo of the martyr instead of having to feed the kid.

Yeah, let's conflate two issues - that'll sure make everything more transparent. And while we're at it, do it using a 'look-over-there' argument!

Deflect from what? The zoo? That zoo that had a rocket launcher next to it?

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.

But it's just so much fun!

Yes and in your past or past past incarnation it was so much wearing a pointy white hood and lighting crosses and lynching negros.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.[8] This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law.

But it's just so much fun!

Yes and in your past or past past incarnation it was so much wearing a pointy white hood and lighting crosses and lynching negros.

doglover:Now, Al-Bisan is far from relaxing, with the wire of its enclosures twisted and crushed, debris and dead animals strewn around, and the remains of militant rocket launchers lying nearby.

And we return to the crux of the problem: Hamas.

If you like your zoo, don't launch rockets from it. If you love your children, don't launch rockets near them. If you are sane, don't launch rockets at all.

Yeah, I had to stop reading at: "Hissi was insistent there had been no militant weapons inside the zoo.But buckled rectangular metal rocket launch systems lay among the debris on the edge of the park, near a large building that was also hit by Israeli air strikes. Some appeared still to be loaded with rockets."

What kind of Orwellian mental conditioning does one have to go through to achieve that level of denial? Look, I don't like Israel's antagonistic policies towards the Palestinians, but you could ask any Palestinian and they'd tell you there wasn't a single rocket in Gaza.

GoldSpider:doglover: Now, Al-Bisan is far from relaxing, with the wire of its enclosures twisted and crushed, debris and dead animals strewn around, and the remains of militant rocket launchers lying nearby.

And we return to the crux of the problem: Hamas.

If you like your zoo, don't launch rockets from it. If you love your children, don't launch rockets near them. If you are sane, don't launch rockets at all.

Yeah, I had to stop reading at: "Hissi was insistent there had been no militant weapons inside the zoo.But buckled rectangular metal rocket launch systems lay among the debris on the edge of the park, near a large building that was also hit by Israeli air strikes. Some appeared still to be loaded with rockets."

What kind of Orwellian mental conditioning does one have to go through to achieve that level of denial? Look, I don't like Israel's antagonistic policies towards the Palestinians, but you could ask any Palestinian and they'd tell you there wasn't a single rocket in Gaza.

I'm sure you're not making up the whole asking any Palestinian if there are rockets at all bit.

"The animals were all smuggled through tunnels that connected Egypt to Gaza, before the passages were shut last year with the ouster of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, a key ally of the Islamist movement Hamas."

As a side note, I have long wondered why the Palestinians do not have an "open" border with Egypt. We always hear about the sealed border with Israel, but there's never any mention of why Egypt has the border sealed. Anybody know?